Wednesday, February 13, 2013

New Diablo 3 Patch

Last night I had planned on playing a bit of D3, but changed my mind and played BO2 instead. The patch has a decent number of changes, added dueling (brawling), and made crafting better for getting yourself upgrades. That said, it is not a GREAT patch.....unless you are a Monk who got buffed out the wazoo. Here are the notes.

PTR Patch 1.0.7 - v.1.0.7.14456

Patch Features

New Feature: Brawling

For those who wish to test their mettle against fellow Nephalem, your time has come. Players will now be able to duel one another in a new zone designed specifically for this style of combat. This zone can be accessed by speaking with Nek the Brawler located at the inn in New Tristram, and supports 2 to 4 players in a Free-For-All format.

To learn more about brawling, click here!

General

•Nephalem Valor stacks will now persist through Acts

•Base pick-up radius for all characters has been increased from 1.5 yards to 3 yards

•The resurrection timer will no longer increase if a player is killed multiple times in a row

•Players should no longer play a flinching animation (causing them to briefly lose control of their character) if they are hit by multiple monsters at the same time

•The experience bonus rewarded for killing monsters on Monster Power levels 1-10 in Inferno has been increased:

•MP 1: 25% (up from 10%)

•MP 2: 50% (up from 20%)

•MP 3: 80% (up from 30%)

•MP 4: 120%(up from 45%)

•MP 5: 165% (up from 60%)

•MP 6: 215% (up from 75%)

•MP 7: 275% (up from 95%)

•MP 8: 340% (up from 115%)

•MP 9: 420% (up from 135%

•MP 10: 510% (up from 160%)

•When resuming a game, players will now be placed in town instead of at the last known checkpoint (a portal will be available to take you to your last known checkpoint, if desired)

Achievements

Bug Fixes

•Subjugators now count towards the achievements "We are Champions" and "Champion's Collection" Rare Colossal Golgors will now count towards the "Rare Kill" achievements

Auction House

User Interface

•Cancelled PayPal auctions will now display a UI error

Bug Fixes

•Stash Tab Art will now properly update when viewed in the Auction House

Battle.net

General

•Monster Power is now available for Public Games

•Players can now select their desired Monster Power level from a drop-down when joining Public Games provided that the “Enable Monster Power” box has been checked in the Options menu

•“Report Botting” has been added to the right-click > report player menus

•The Battle.net UI now displays how many players are online

Bosses

General

•Izual is now included in the list of bosses that grant an extra reward when you have 5 stacks of Nephalem Valor, and the overall reward for killing him has been increased

•A new tier of account-bound gems of has been added to the game: Marquise

•Marquise Gems stats are as follows:

•Marquise Emerald

•Weapon: Increased Critical Hit Damage by 110%

•Helm: +33% Extra Gold from Monsters

•Armor: +62 Dexterity

•Marquise Topaz

•Weapon: Melee attackers take 2500 per hit

•Helm: 33% Better chance of finding magical items

•Armor: +62 Intelligence

•Marquise Amethyst

•Weapon: Each Hit adds +700 Life

•Helm: +19% Life

•Armor: +62 Vitality

•Marquise Ruby

•Weapon: +150 Minimum and +150 Maximum Damage

•Helm: Increases Bonus Experience by 33%

•Armor: +62 Strength

•These gems can only be created at the Jeweler and will require the following reagents:

•3 Radiant Star Gems

•20 million gold

•10 Demonic Essence

•Un-socketing Marquise gems will cost 5 million gold

•The designs for the Marquise gems will drop randomly from all level 63 monsters

•Note: The designs are not account-bound

•Radiant Square Rubies, Star Rubies, Flawless Star Rubies, Perfect Star Rubies, and Radiant Star Rubies have had their weapon bonuses increased (these changes will apply to both existing rubies, as well as new rubies):

•(EDIT): The notes in the launcher show values for all lower rubies as well. Can't copy and paste them though.

2 comments:

Hey, long time! Hope you're doing well. You still play D3? I've been playing solo games and am kind of itching to play a co-op game, but can't seem to find a good one. I tried logging on D3 once, but it felt so weird after taking a break, not to mention boring. I did a few runs, got 1 or 2 crappy legendary drops, and then was like "screw this". Haha.

By the way, what's with WOW recruiting these days? It sounds like other people are wiling to buy you the game? Did people become generous, or is there a perk for them? Couldn't the person you bought the game for not play with you afterwards? Sounded a little odd. At the same time, I might have been tempted if they lowered subscription to like $5/month.

And LOL at above post. At least the spammer is giving you compliments. "Stay up the great work!" =)

Hey man. I play a little bit of Diablo here and there, but very little to be honest. Even with the recent changes, I cant bring myself to do more than a run or two. It is just so repetetive.

I am not sure why people would be willing to buy someone the game unless they are just really wanting the refer a friend perk and mount that you can get from it. The entire thing including all expansions is only 35 bucks now, so there is that.